Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Submarine

HMS Unison

U-class submarine

HMS Unison
Tomlin, H W (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 7547 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate HMSM UNISON in the Clyde during her working up trials.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Unison19 February 1942 — 26 June 1944858 days of the war
  2. Soviet Navy as V-326 June 1944 — 1949433 days of the war
U-class submarine Particulars
Name
HMS Unison
Builder
Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down
30 December 1940
Launched
5 November 1941
Commissioned
19 February 1942
Fate
Returned to Royal Navy in 1949 (1949)
Status
Unknown

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced
540 long tons (549 t)
Displacement, submerged
730 long tons (742 t)
Length
58.22 m (191 ft)
Beam
4.9 m (16.1 ft)
Draught
4.62 m (15.2 ft)
Speed
11.3 knots (20.8 km/h, 12.9 mph)
Complement
27
Main gun
76 mm (3 in)

HMS Unison was a U-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 30 December 1940. She entered service on 19 February 1942, having been launched on 5 November 1941.

Her class ran to 53 ships.

The boat displaced 540 long tons surfaced and 730 long tons submerged. She measured 58.2 m (191 ft) long with a beam of 4.9 m (16 ft). Her designed speed was 11.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 27.

Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.

She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Unison until 26 June 1944. She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as V-3 from 26 June 1944. She was in commission for 1,291 days of the Second World War.

She was transferred in 1949.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 2 shaft diesel-electric
  • 2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors
  • 615 / 825 hp
Armament
  • 4 x bow internal 21 inch (533 mm)torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes
  • 1 x 3 in gun

Sister ships

28 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Unison on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Tomlin, H W (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 7547 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons